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Judge Approves $25 Million Settlement Of Trump University Lawsuit The deal was reached in November but needed the approval of U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel. One student had objected to the settlement, which prevented her from suing Trump on her own. Read more on NPR

A trigger warning: this presentation is not going to be warm and cheerful, designed to improve your self-esteem. Second trigger warning: I am an economist, and we have an awful record of prediction. from Forbes Education

It is not impossible to get into college; there are only a few very highly competitive colleges which accept few of their applicants. More than 45% of the four-year colleges in the U.S. accept 75% or more of the students who apply. There are many colleges for you or your student. from Forbes Education

Take control of your health with a few simple and powerful steps. from Forbes Education

If you have important data or statistics to share, you’ll want to make sure your numbers stand out. Put data into context that’s relevant to the lives of your audience. from Forbes Education

What if a business school itself had to write essays about what defines the MBA program, and makes it stand out? We've turned the tables and asked the Admissions Director at the Rotman School of Management to answer three questions drawn from the essays that they and other top schools ask. from Forbes Education

You don't need to have a mass of leadership positions to be a good candidate for college. Depth, commitment and thoughtful concern can be just as important. from Forbes Education

How do we encourage our staff to be more innovative? It’s an old problem that has challenged managers for decades. But an unexpected solution may come from a study of Indian farmers’ adoption of new crops. The answer for farmers, as well as Western managers, may lie in creating more ‘slack time’. from Forbes Education

Why Cartographers Are Annoyed With Boston Public Schools The district just dumped the Mercator Projection, to much fanfare. But is its replacement really better? March 30, 2017 at 06:30PM via Digg http://ift.tt/2oekBEN

Jerk Teacher Pranks His Students With A Spelling Test Full Of Gibberish Sure, this is funny. But someone needs to teach this teacher how to use a calendar, because "close enough" does not a holiday make. March 30, 2017 at 04:12PM via Digg http://ift.tt/2omuRIu

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and Federal Student Aid (FSA) have announced that the Data Retrieval Tool (DRT) on fafsa.gov and StudentLoans.gov will remain unavailable until extra security protections can be added. from Forbes Education

Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management unveiled it's new headquarters, a building that hopes to spark collaboration and creativity among both students and faculty. The 410,000-square foot building features flexible space, and many places to gather. from Forbes Education

#ThanksForTyping Spotlights Unnamed Women In Literary Acknowledgements A professor shared book acknowledgement pages, where men thanked their wives for typing their manuscripts. #ThanksForTyping soon sparked a conversation on women and their uncredited roles in academia. Read more on NPR

Betsy DeVos Compares School Choice To Picking Between Uber, Lyft, And Taxis At a presentation on Brookings' annual school choice rankings, Betsy DeVos gave this keynote speech. Yes — public schools should be disrupted by one company run by an alleged sexist party boy and another that wants to be your "woke boyfriend" alternative. March 30, 2017 at 09:39AM via Digg http://ift.tt/2njEKFf

A Surprising Explanation For Why Some Immigrants Excel In Science It has to do with language learning, according to a new study from Duke University. Read more on NPR

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Today the U.K. triggered its withdrawal from the E.U., but there’s a cloud lurking on the horizon that could prove just as troublesome. from Forbes Education

To find out more about how students – and their parents – approach the college search, we looked to a recent survey by The Princeton Review. The survey shows which schools are most respected by students and what worries students - and parents - most about admissions. from Forbes Education

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Uber Diversity report is proof of how few women succeed at the company. from Forbes Education

Muslim Schoolchildren Bullied By Fellow Students And Teachers One study revealed that teachers and school officials have participated in one in four bullying incidents involving Muslim students. Read more on NPR

Colleges have devised formulas and pricing matrices that determine how much discounting from the full price to give to each student, with the discount related in some cases to academic achievement, in other cases to diversity concerns, or to the student’s financial situation. from Forbes Education

The process of writing can be agonizing. There's grammar. There are ideas. There's the need for clear expression of those ideas. Matthew Ramirez, CEO and one of the founders of WriteLab, has created software that gives automated feedback to scribes, and it's easing the pain. from Forbes Education

Look to the medieval world for examples of how and how not to be a college applicant. You're a knight in shining armor, not a serf. from Forbes Education

A New Kind Of March Madness Hits Schools It's March Mammal Madness, a bracket with real animals facing off in fictional battles. Hundreds of science classes are playing in schools around the country. Read more on NPR

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A quick look at the current credit card competition. from Forbes Education

The season of thin and fat envelopes (now emails) is upon us. With the epistles coming in svelte and short this year, parents are kicking themselves for not having done more to catapult their gene pool over the hedge into the Ivy League. Is Prep School the answer to your Tweenager's Dreams? from Forbes Education

Sir Tim Barrow, the UK’s permanent representative to the EU, will deliver a letter triggering Article 50 talks at 12.30pm tomorrow and two years of talks will begin on the terms of the UK exit. But the nine months it has taken for this Brexit baby have revealed neither clarity nor leadership. from Forbes Education

Google Hopes To Hire More Black Engineers By Bringing Students To Silicon Valley Howard, the historically black university in Washington, D.C., is sending computer science students to study at Google's headquarters in California, as part of an effort called Howard West. Read more on NPR

Want to know what’s going on in analytics? Here are three writers who will clue you in. They can tell you what the numbers mean and what they don’t, what’s new in industry and what’s what in the analytics market. from Forbes Education

College Classes In Maximum Security: 'It Gives You Meaning' A privately funded program provides higher education to about 300 students in New York state prisons. Graduates are less likely to get in legal trouble after prison but getting hired is a challenge. Read more on NPR

How For-Profit Colleges Sell 'Risky Education' To The Most Vulnerable Tressie McMillan Cottom worked in enrollment at two for-profit colleges, but quit because she felt uncomfortable selling students an education they couldn't afford. Her new book is Lower Ed. Read more on NPR

It's time for you to love your career. from Forbes Education

People talk a lot about helping workers left behind by trade. It's time to stop talking and start doing. from Forbes Education

The college admission process may be a crisis, but it can be constructively approached by using these five steps. from Forbes Education

'Open Schools' Made Noise In The 70s, Now They're Just Noisy 'Open Education' was a big idea half a century ago. Kids were supposed to move around, learning in groups or exploring on their own. But, within a few years, the movement faded. So, what happened? Read more on NPR

Concerns After Texas School Opens 'Prayer Room' That's Attracting Muslim Students The state attorney general has raised constitutional questions about a public school's move to establish a room to accommodate all students and their religions. The debate has embroiled the community. Read more on NPR

More Children In The West Are Being Taught Math Using China’s Fabled, Slightly Brutal 'Mastery' Method Skeptics of the program point to cultural differences between British and Chinese schools. Some say that students in the UK are unused to the rigor and long classroom hours experienced by Chinese students. March 26, 2017 at 09:38AM via Digg http://ift.tt/2ojJLhP

Two Lost Mr. Rogers Episodes Mysteriously ResurfaceAnd Might Be a Message to Trump After Trump's budget called for ending public arts funding and hiking military spending, Cold War-era episodes about stripping public arts funding went live on YouTube. March 26, 2017 at 08:36AM via Digg http://ift.tt/2np90BA

Howard University's Aims To Build Silicon Valley Pipeline Of Black Software Engineers The historically black university in Washington, D.C., is sending computer science students to study at Google's headquarters in California, as part of an effort called Howard West. Read more on NPR

Online courses can help you level up your career, stay competitive, and even help your snag a brand new opportunity. Unsure which to take? Here are eight courses you can take from the comfort of your sofa, all teaching resume-worthy skills. from Forbes Education

Students Serve Up Stories Of Beloved Family Recipes In A Global Cookbook Many students at D.C.'s Capital City Charter School are first-generation Americans. For a creative writing project, a literacy nonprofit picked a topic everyone could relate to: food from home. Read more on NPR

A High School's Lesson For Helping English Language Learners Get To College Fort Wayne, Ind., is home to one of the largest Burmese refugee populations in the U.S. One public high school there is helping them meet high expectations. Read more on NPR

This Week In Education: Supreme Court Rules On Special Ed; Senator Slams Vouchers Plus a bill for 'Dreamers' and a former for-profit college lobbyist leaves the Education Department. Read more on NPR

After An Immigration Raid, A City’s Students Vanish In Las Cruces, New Mexico, fear of Donald Trump’s immigration policies is creating alarming absences at schools. March 25, 2017 at 12:57AM via Digg http://ift.tt/2nxWyAj

Measuring College (Un)affordability As many as 95 percent of colleges are out of reach for low-income students even before they've taken the SAT. March 24, 2017 at 09:51PM via Digg http://ift.tt/2of7aRJ

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A Former Student Says UC Berkeley’s Star Philosophy Professor Groped Her And Watched Porn At Work A lawsuit alleges UC Berkeley professor John R. Searle sexually harassed, assaulted, and retaliated against a former student and employee — and that the university did nothing to stop him. March 24, 2017 at 01:09PM via Digg http://ift.tt/2mxeSKq

The future of education. from Forbes Education

By all measures Xavier is the underdog story of the NCAA Tournament. The Musketeers don't see it as a David-versus-Goliath run and it's probably why they keep winning. from Forbes Education

It's easy to feel stressed out. There are so many demands such as meetings to attend, to-do lists to be completed, and phone calls to be made. There is a way out. If you meditate for even ten minutes, you'll feel better. Learn ways to do a simple but powerful meditation. from Forbes Education

There are a number of reasons to consider studying abroad - among them quality, lifestyle, career options and cost. from Forbes Education

Age and language are key factors in immigrant career paths, according to a new study. from Forbes Education

As education advertising grows into the sophisticated, interconnected vehicle that advertisers are clamoring for, the immediate beneficiaries will be the school districts and universities as they increase their acquisition pipelines. The uptick of quality education materials will be a boon to kids. from Forbes Education

Kids Who Suffer Hunger In First Years Lag Behind Their Peers In School When infants and young kids grow up in homes without enough to eat, they're more likely to perform poorly in kindergarten, a study shows. The younger they experienced hunger, the stronger the effect. Read more on NPR

The youngest volcano yet was discovered on Mars just this month, but it still died out tens of millions of years ago. What happened to Mars' volcanoes? from Forbes Education

Urban Sprawl Affects School Start Times for Sleepy Teens Why does school start so early? Blame 1970s planning. March 23, 2017 at 11:49AM via Digg http://ift.tt/2o8EUjB

In their attempt to help new and tenured employees develop the skills they need to be successful, many companies offer corporate learning opportunities. However, the tools that some companies currently use for this purpose are inadequate. from Forbes Education

We are training fewer teachers at precisely the point that student numbers are rising - and the result could be serious disruption in our classrooms. from Forbes Education

A recent study suggests that a large number of people are stressed about their job being automated away, but how realistic are these fears? Using several hundred years of evidence, I explore what we can learn from history and how we can adapt in the present. from Forbes Education

Higher education is plenty good at talking to itself. But without a “demand-side” interlocutor to engage on crucial topics like how degrees and other credentials are interpreted and valued and actual hiring screens and processes faced by graduates, we won't materially improve outcomes for students. from Forbes Education

One way to contain health care costs in the industrialized world could be to encourage healthy diet and lifestyle - before illness strikes. from Forbes Education

School Suspensions Have Plunged: We Don't Yet Know If That's Good News A controversial new paper suggests schools in New York City are less safe now that fewer students are being suspended. Read more on NPR

“I wouldn’t want to give the reader the impression that I wrote TBHNS (This Book Has No Spine) as an acceptance ticket, because there is NO INSTITUTION on this planet that could inspire the amount of invested emotion and effort.” from Forbes Education

Porn Stars Detail Their Levels Of Educational Attainment Moral of the story: having sex for money has nothing to do with how "learned" someone is. March 22, 2017 at 05:29PM via Digg http://ift.tt/2o6dlaE